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Wikidata weekly summary #182
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.
I love Wikidata because - Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
- Images from the party
- Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
- Presents:
- Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
- Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
- Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
- Special:Nearby by the dev team
- Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
- Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
- Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
- Past: Open Access Week
- Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
- Past: Tehran SFD (video)
- Upcoming: ODI Summit
- Upcoming: SWAT4LS
- Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
- Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
- Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
- Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
- The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
- Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
- Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
- Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
- Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
- Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
- We passed 15M items.
- Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
- All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
- Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
- Development
- Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
- Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
- Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
- Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #183
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Lakokat
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
- Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
- Semantic Cities
- Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
- Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
- Past: semwebpro (slides)
- Past: ODI Summit
- Past: MozFest (etherpad)
- Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
- Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
- Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
- Ever noticed ranks?
- Development
- Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
- Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
- Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
- Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
- Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
- Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
- Worked more on making search work on mobile
- Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #184
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
- Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
- Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
- Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
- Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
- Newest WikiProjects: Education
- Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
- Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
- Development
- Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
- Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
- Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
- Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
- Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
- Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #185
Wikidata weekly summary #114
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
- Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
- More mixin’, more matches
- Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
- Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
- Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
- Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
- Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
- MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
- What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
- You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
- Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
- Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
- Development
- Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
- Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
- Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
- Decreased size of html of item pages
- Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
- More work on making the search on mobile work
- Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
- Fixing size of table of content on mobile
- Prevented merging of items which link to each other
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #186
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Koavf
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
- Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
- Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
- Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
- WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
- Workshop i Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
- New daily report on Mix'n'match
- Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
- French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
- New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
- A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
- Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
- Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
- example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
- Development
- Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
- Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
- Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
- Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
- Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.